<p>So, I posted this question over in CC Cafe. I thought it would be interesting to get the info from parents, as well.</p>
<p>Soda, Pop, or Coke? That’s right, it’s time for the ever popular debate, CC Style. In light of all of the serious and political debating that goes on here at CC, I thought it might be fun to have a bit of a light-hearted debate.</p>
<p>So, what do you call a carbonated beverage? </p>
<p>After enough data is collected I’ll put together some fun statistics, and probably put together a few graphs on a website. (I need something to do when I’m not at work!)</p>
<p>I thought that it would be easier to have some sort of a format for responses. Please post the following ( or as much or as little of it as you are comfortable posting) at the beginning of your message:</p>
<p>Your Name For Carbonated Beverages
Your Location
Gender
Age (or age range, whatever you are comfortable with)</p>
<p>After that, debate away! </p>
<p>Here is my response:</p>
<p>Pop
Southwestern, PA
Female
19</p>
<p>I was raised in Southwestern, PA. Everyone I know calls it pop.</p>
<p>we usually mix club soda with juice…that’s our SODA!! and my poor teens only get the sugary stuff once a week…its SOOOO bad for the bones and skin,</p>
<p>soda
female
over 40
California (but my Mom was from NY and she called it soda) whereas my friends all called it Coke
My kids are mixed. Sometimes calling it soda and other times calling it coke. The soda they probably picked up from me</p>
<p>BUT I grew up in Indiana and of course, there it is and always will be, at least from my youth - pop. When I first found myself calling it soda, I knew I had acclimated to the East Coast.</p>
<p>I worked in a restaurant when I was in college and I remember someone with an obvious east coast accent asked for a phosphate once. I could not understand why they wanted something from the Periodic Table with their dinner. I was taking chemistry at the time. :)</p>
<p>You mean people really call something “Coke” just because it’s carbonated? Pepsi, Sprite, orange soda, Dr. Pepper – all of them are “Coke”? Weird! :-)</p>
<p>Not a parent, but I had to chime in. I won’t skew any data by offering a response – just an anecdote!</p>
<p>I grew up alternating between Coke and soda. My mom was born in South Dakota and raised in California, and my dad was born and raised in California. I and my brother were also (can you guess?) raised in California. My mom and dad always drank Coca Cola, so soda was always Coke because it <em>was</em> always coke – and then I switched to Dr Pepper (when we lived in Texas! hmm…) … and it was still called Coke. We moved back to California and started calling it ‘soda’ generally (mostly because we got the response “The soda machines are over there, you can pick when you get your cup” when we ordered Coke).</p>
<p>And <em>then</em> I visited my relatives in South Dakota one summer, and I had to get used to all of the slang. Pop, it was. Never soda (that was a cooking ingredient) and never Coke (none of the family understood that it could mean any carbonated beverage). </p>
<p>Amusingly, one of my friend’s grandmothers used to call soda “the death juice” because she just KNEW something that popped in your mouth like that just couldn’t be healthy. XD (Which, of course, meant that said friend needed to have Pop Rocks and Coke/soda/pop at my house.) :D</p>
<p>pop
Seattle
female
47
We don’t drink pop either except organic ginger ale for upset tummies
but I will down a redbull or hansens energy drink every once in a while when I have a late night and early morning.</p>
<p>I have been convinced for years that the term “pop” was a Michigan term, like “I work at Fords or Kmarts.” That “s” at the end is a dead give-away for someone from Southeastern Michigan.</p>
I was taking chemistry at the time. :)</p>